RHEL QCOW Image Password

Did you know that although you can install RHEL from an ISO, you can also download a QCOW2 image from Red Hat. However, when you try to start it up under virt-manager you’ll see that it boots to a root prompt and you don’t know what the password is. This can be fixed by running the following from the host’s terminal:

# virt-customize -a <qcow2-image-file-name> --root-password password:<password>

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